01-10-2013, 02:00 AM | #21 | |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
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Intent to commit a crime is a crime, not just incredibly stupid to ignore. Thoughts are no longer thoughts when you say them out loud. I have a thought secret that would get me lynched in many places, but I have never said them aloud to anyone but my life mate. I would be stupid to say them and expect no repercussions. The fact she did say hers says she seriously considers them and cannot control her mouth.
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01-10-2013, 03:30 AM | #23 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Does it really matter? What do you say to the family of people she eventually kills when it's so damn obvious that she will?
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01-10-2013, 03:37 AM | #24 |
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You say, "We are sorry for your loss. We did everything we could."
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01-10-2013, 04:18 AM | #25 | |
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I think this line of thinking is a slippery slope. We could eliminate far more murders and violent crimes if we just had everyone implanted with tracking chips, and ideally developed mind reading tecnologies (we have fMRI as a crude beginning now), and trusted that government would never abuse these things. What would you tell the families of people that get killed when arguing against such Orwellian methods, when those methods would have inarguably prevented the deaths? Several years ago I read about people arguing that since we can profile people with brain scans for antisocial / psychopathic personalities, we should do this and then lock up or at least watch these people... without any evidence of even a thought crime. In the end, it sucks sometimes, but law enforcement has to wait until a crime is really committed. That said, if our legal system didn't make it so difficult for people to arm and defend themselves (depending on the area you live), people might be able to defend themselves better when such threats do come calling.
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
It does in a Rechtsstaat.
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01-10-2013, 05:53 AM | #27 |
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Sorry for the thread drift. I don't believe free speech to be the same thing as declaring intent and gathering the items and skill to commit murder. We can agree to disagree on that.
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01-10-2013, 06:42 AM | #28 | |
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It's not preparing to commit murder if it's all abstract - it's not "I'm going to kill everyone I can see from the top of the clock tower once I get up there" which is very concrete and specific, even if you have no idea who they are. It's "I'm going to kill someone some day". Anyways. Thread drift, but my closing note: as gamers, we of all people should be wary of encouraging the police to arrest people for thinking and talking and planning about doing violence to abstract people. Otherwise I'd never get to talk about 99% of my gaming in public, and modern-period action games would be potentially illegal.
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